perl.com: Installing mod_perl without superuser privileges [Apr. 10, 2002]

Spent the last couple of days trying to install apache, mysql and various other mod_* modules onto my powerbook. Looks like I won’t have time to write any MT plugins. Oh well!

For someone who grew up on Linux, Mac OS X has some quirks with packages I’m used to installing on Linux. With apache, I’m used to setting the prefix flag and having everything install into that directory. This turned out not to be the case with Mac OS X. I had to set the additional –sysconfdir –datadir and –localstatedir to get it to install completely in my home directory.